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Published: 2005-07-05 03:52:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 15024; Favourites: 78; Downloads: 330
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Description A scientist relives a traumatizing experience.

Been spending too much time playing with ants recenctly, and this is the result. Playing with ants in an entirely professional sense of course, TSP algorithms and whatnot .
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Comments: 16

DarknessArising [2015-03-21 22:51:31 +0000 UTC]

WaIt, again? What do you mean AGAIN?!?

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valkiriforce [2012-08-13 03:16:20 +0000 UTC]

That is one depressed ant.

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0202inferno [2011-03-14 20:41:40 +0000 UTC]

Wife: EEEP A BUG ITS A GIANT BUG*grabs broom and starts beating husband with it*
Husmand: OW OW OW OW OW(i knew this was going to happen)

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BetrayerOfNihil [2009-04-08 12:37:56 +0000 UTC]

I like how he covers his eyes with his little arms.

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SesakaTH [2005-07-08 02:59:29 +0000 UTC]

:lmao That's totaally clever of you!

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tfproxy [2005-07-06 22:57:30 +0000 UTC]

Well.. I bowed to the pressures that be, and re-uploaded a brighter version of the picture.. Guess I'm going to have to re-calibrate meh monitor....

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twonjosh [2005-07-06 04:26:01 +0000 UTC]

TSP?

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tfproxy In reply to twonjosh [2005-07-06 04:42:16 +0000 UTC]

TSP: (Travelling Salesman Problem)

A well-known problem in Computer Science which has no known efficient solution. The problem is to find a tour of N cities (visiting all cities once) with the shortest length. Sounds easy, but once you get to a possible set of cities of 64, there's 64! (factorial) possible paths to evaluate if you do a 'generate all tours and search to find the smallest' approach. If you don't have a calculator, 64! ~= 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (ie. a really big number).

Using virtual 'ants' (aka. agents) a (non-proven) optimal solution can be found in a few minutes, as apposed to a few billion years it would take to brute-force search the tours.

Thats the general idea anyways

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twonjosh In reply to tfproxy [2005-07-06 18:31:40 +0000 UTC]

Wow, i'm speechless

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tfproxy In reply to twonjosh [2005-07-06 22:41:20 +0000 UTC]

Sure makes you think twice next time you see that poor little ant scurrying around the kitchen

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Dragoniade [2005-07-05 22:47:21 +0000 UTC]

Nice work Proxy. Though, the picture is a bit dark. When you crank the Gamma a little, you can see quite a lot more detail, especially the light red marking.

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tfproxy In reply to Dragoniade [2005-07-06 00:04:39 +0000 UTC]

Hmmm.... I guess it might be a bit dark, but oh well I'll get it right next time.

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Dragoniade In reply to tfproxy [2005-07-06 03:07:55 +0000 UTC]

Nothing that a quick 1.5 gamma correction can't quickly fix
Still, great work. We don't see insects TF really often. It's a nice change from the routine.

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PeshoZmiata [2005-07-05 21:26:09 +0000 UTC]

Creepy! And neat... How did he fix himself the first time?

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tfproxy In reply to PeshoZmiata [2005-07-05 22:42:35 +0000 UTC]

Well.. The way HE tells the story it was quite an adventure .

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Thrashwolf [2005-07-05 06:17:33 +0000 UTC]

hehehe.
So I'm wondering if the wife is a "queen" ant. Might make a nice companion piece.

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